"For the Sun King!"

"Bang bang bang-"

On the second day of the seventh month, when the sound of artillery fire appeared on the Franco-Dutch border, King Louis XIV of France officially launched a war against the Netherlands, known as the Franco-Dutch War.

On August 15, taking advantage of the Franco-Dutch War, Spain united with the Holy Roman Empire and launched a war against the Ottoman Empire.

On 16 August, 120,000 French troops were about to capture Amsterdam, but the Dutch's patriotic energy exploded, and they broke the embankment to prevent the French from occupying Amsterdam, and appointed William III, Prince of Orange, as the governor of the United Province.

On the second day of September, Charles II of England declared war on the Netherlands.

On 15 September, Spain seized Egypt in the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottomans retreated back to the Middle East Peninsula.

On October 20, William III, the ruler of the Netherlands, entered into an anti-French alliance with Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

On the first day of the winter month, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire each sent 30,000 troops, forcing France to disperse their forces to fight in all directions.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, the Qi Academy of Sciences successfully experimented with the first gasoline diesel locomotive and used ethanol gasoline as fuel.

In this experiment, the three-wheeled diesel locomotive attracted everyone's attention at a speed of 20 miles per hour.

Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, visited the experiment, and while awarding the "National Scholar" medal to the bachelor of internal combustion engine research, he also hoped that they could develop a diesel locomotive with a faster speed.

In February of the third year of the reign of Qiansheng, the Kunlun Nu Rebellion broke out in the Tang Kingdom, and the number of slaves involved in the rebellion was as high as tens of thousands, and it rapidly expanded to one million in the following months.

On February 13, the earthquake in Luzhou in Daming was like thunder, and the houses collapsed, affecting the area from Wuhan in the west to Wuxi in the east.

In May, Newton spent a year recording data on overseas grain exports to England, handing them over to King Charles II.

Newton recorded that 84 million pounds of grain and wheat, or 63,000 tons, were shipped to Britain from abroad in the past year, enough to feed the inhabitants of London for ten months.

In June, the British Navy and the Dutch Navy encountered an exchange of fire at sea, and the British Navy was defeated, sinking twelve warships.

In July, Charles II negotiated peace with the Netherlands, and William III agreed.

In October, following the Tang State, the seven feudal domains of Kunlun such as Ji State and Huai State respectively suffered a slave mutiny, and the countries asked for help from the Kunlun Supervision Envoy, and the Kunlun Supervision Envoy sent troops to the capital at the same time.

In Layue, with the help of William III's excellent battles and the Allies, the Dutch army regained Bonn, and the French army was driven out of the country, but the Dutch army suffered heavy losses.

In February of the fourth year of Qiansheng, at the invitation of Zhou Chongjian, a merchant of Qi State, the Dutch scholar Leeuwenhoek took his family to Qi State.

In March, Leeuwenhoek arrived in Xijing City and was invited to the Academy of Sciences by Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi.

At the Academy of Sciences, Leeuwenhoek used Qi's state-of-the-art microscope to observe many microorganisms that he had never observed.

In a letter to the palace of the king of Qi, he said that he discovered and learned that blood was composed of crystal-like mist of water containing very small round spheres.

Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, wrote back to him three days later, mentioning that the water he observed was plasma, and the blood cells were suspended in this liquid.

According to the prompting of Zhu Youjian, the king of Qi, Leeuwenhoek measured the size of the blood cells ten days later.

In May, after the victory, William III led a newly recruited army of 80,000 to continue the counterattack against the French.

In July, based on research over the past few months, as well as the erudition and advice of Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, Leeuwenhoek proposed that "human blood is divided into different blood types".

In the days that followed, he and his colleagues used their own blood to find four different blood types.

In October, Emperor Zhu Ciran felt that the country had consolidated its territory after many years of recuperation, and that King Ding's delay in taking up the domain, he ordered Li Dingguo to be the governor of Pingxi, Wu Sangui to be the vanguard governor, and Zhu Cijiong to be the governor of the rear army, and sent 60,000 troops to attack Rakshasa.

In March of the fifth year of Qiansheng, after half a month of dispatching troops, Li Dingguo led a large army out of Yumen Pass in Taixi Province.

At this time, Taixi Province already had a permanent population of 1.67 million, and the train was constantly transporting supplies from the Central Plains to Taixi to support the army's westward expedition.

At this time, the Russian army on the border was only 60,000 men, and the highlands on the west bank of the Volga River were used as defensive positions.

The Volga Heights position has been repaired by Tsarist Russia for more than ten years, and it can be said that it is a perfect line of defense in this era.

However, Li Dingguo did not intend to engage the 60,000 Tsarist Russian troops on the heights, and he ordered Zhu Cijiong to lead 20,000 cavalry to surround the 60,000 Russian troops on the Volga Heights, and then go straight to Moscow with Wu Sangui.

Since the main forces were in the east and west, the hinterland of Tsarist Russia was empty, and Wu Sangui led 10,000 forward cavalry to easily break through the heights of Tsarist Russia, and it took only three days to cross the hinterland of Tsarist Russia and penetrate deep into the central region.

On the afternoon of 17 March, Wu Sangui, who was old and strong, had already led 10,000 vanguard cavalry to the east bank of the Moscow River to look at Moscow on the other side, and captured Ryazan, the capital of the former Grand Duchy of Ryazan.

Seeing the Ming army on the east bank, Alexei I in Moscow thought that the 60,000 troops in the east had been completely annihilated, so he hurriedly led the army to withdraw from Moscow and go to St. Petersburg.

That night, Li Dingguo led 30,000 horse infantry to the east bank of the Moscow River and crossed the river at night.

The next morning, the Ming army appeared under the city of Moscow, and most of the defenders who did not flee from Moscow were completely annihilated.

After the fall of Moscow, the Ming army did not massacre the inhabitants, but allowed them to flee to St. Petersburg.

On 20 March, Li Dingguo ordered Wu Sangui to lead 10,000 cavalry infantry to defend Moscow, and he led 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 cavalry infantry to sweep north and south through many cities east of the Moscow River.

In front of the rifles and artillery in the hands of the Ming army, all the defenders were cleared like mustard, and the Ming army drove straight in, its combat effectiveness and speed were unheard of in the history of war, and the whole Tsarist Russia fell into panic.

On March 26, while fleeing to St. Petersburg, Alexei I died of panic, and his son Fedor Alekseevich became Tsar.

Due to his young age when he ascended the throne, the government of Tsarist Russia was controlled by the Naryshkin family.

On the fifth day of April, at the same time as Fedor III arrived in St. Petersburg, the Naryshkin family proposed to send someone to negotiate peace, and this proposal was approved by a small number of nobles.

However, most of the aristocracy believed that after losing the territory east of Moscow, Tsarist Russia would not be able to gain a foothold in St. Petersburg, and therefore strongly opposed it.

However, with the news of the continuous fall of the city, they could only bow their heads helplessly.

On the first day of June, when the Ming army had cleared the last castle east of Moscow, Tsarist Russia sent people to Moscow to negotiate peace.

At this time, only the 60,000 troops on the Volga heights remained in the hands of Tsarist Russia east of Moscow.

Under the indulgence of the Ming army, a large number of Tsarist Russians fled to the west, and famine spread in St. Petersburg.

On the first day of the seventh month, after drying the envoys of Tsarist Russia for a month, Li Dingguo negotiated with the other party.

After three days of fighting, Tsarist Russia ceded Moscow and all the lands east of Moscow, the Treaty of Moscow was signed, and 60,000 Tsarist troops and a large number of Tsarist Russian civilians withdrew to St. Petersburg.

In August, after a month's journey, the good news was successfully transmitted back to the capital, and the emperor was overjoyed, and Li Dingguo was crowned as the Marquis of Yanshan, and Wu Sangui was Pingxibo.

At the same time, the emperor handed over Moscow and the two cities and towns on the west bank of the Moscow River to the king of Ding, and set up Dingguo as a foreign vassal there, giving Dingguo ten battalions of troops and ten battalions of infantry guns and Yanshan five-pound cannons as equipment.

On September 15, after the news arrived in Moscow, Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui returned to the court, and Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, led three battalions of soldiers and horses to stay in Dingguo, and Moscow was renamed Dingxiang.

On the eleventh day of the winter month, Li Dingguo led the four cavalry guards of Shangzhi to return to the capital, and Wu Sangui, the governor of Pingxibo and the Northern Army, was stationed in Taixi Province.

At the Zhengdan court meeting in the sixth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, Chen Tingjing, the head of the household department, said, "The population of the national dynasty has reached 330 million, but many officials above the local government have hidden the land, so that the cultivated land has not increased much, so please order an inventory of the acres of land." ”

When Emperor Zhu Ciran heard this, he immediately ordered the Imperial Shi Chengde of the Zuo Tuo Du of the Imperial Procuratorate to join forces with the three divisions to investigate the land in the world.

In April, Jiao Changlu, Sichuan's political envoy, was found to have concealed more than 200,000 mu of newly cultivated land, and the "hidden field case" broke out that shocked the world.

The case began with the investigation of Jiao Changlu on the fifth day of the first month of April, and from August 24 to August 24, it was confirmed that there were no less than 10,000 officials who were greedy for ink and cultivated land.

In the case, more than 9,000 people embezzled less than 100 mu, more than 300 people between 1,000 mu and 10,000 mu, 27 people over 10,000 mu and less than 100,000 mu, and 6 people over 100,000 mu.

Officials in Sichuan Province have all been involved in the newly cultivated land in Sichuan in the past seven years, and a total of more than 6,274,000 mu of cultivated land has been hidden.

On the first day of the first month of September, Zuo Du Yushi Chengde was sparse, and the emperor was angry, and the political envoy Jiao Changlu and Zhang Chun were sent to the three clans.

After the outbreak of the "Sichuan Hidden Field Case," Cheng De successively led more than 1,600 officials from the Third Division to visit everywhere, and after a year, more than 54,000 officials were found to be hiding from the cultivated fields, and more than 43,276,000 mu of hidden land were discovered.

In July of the seventh year of Qiansheng, the national farmland inventory came to an end, and Emperor Zhu Ciran issued an order to behead the criminal officials involved in the case, and moved the three clans of the criminal officials in the case to Dingguo and Yongguo with the relocation of the Si Lang Sun Yinzhi.

Afterwards, Chen Tingjing, the head of the household department, counted the statistics, and in view of the fact that there were no less than one million people involved in this case, he asked the emperor to reduce the punishment as appropriate.

On September 17, Emperor Zhu Ciran dismissed the sentence and upheld the original sentence, and millions of prisoners were relocated to Dingguo and Yongguo.

On 15 October, Cabinet Minister Sun Kewang said that the new "Yellow Book" has more than 243 million mu of cultivated land.

On 16 October, Chen Tingjing, the secretary of the household department, said that the family property confiscated after the "hidden field case" totaled about 22,720,000 taels except for cultivated land, and suggested that the national debt should be repaid.

On the fifth day of the first month of winter, the left capital Yushi Chengde, who had finished handling the case, died of illness on the train back to the capital at the age of 79.

On the sixth day of the first month of winter, Emperor Zhu Ciran issued an edict for him to drop out of the dynasty for three days, posthumously as "Wenzhen", and his son Songjiang prefect Cheng Mu was Yu Yinzheng's three-rank scattered rank Jiayi doctor.

On the seventh day of the first month, Emperor Zhu Ciran issued an edict that Chengde was worthy of enjoying the Heavenly Pavilion, and the Emperor Shizuwu was seventeenth to the east, after Wu Aheng.

On the eighth day of the first month, hundreds of officials played a performance, thinking that Chengde was disloyal to Emperor Shizuwu during his lifetime, and asked the emperor to take back Cheng's order, but the emperor ignored it.

On the second day of the lunar month, after observing the transit of Mercury at the observatory of the palace, Zhu Ciyu, the king of Lu, who likes astronomy, proposed to measure the transit time of Venus in different regions of the earth, and recorded the process of observing the transit, and then calculated the accurate value of the solar parallax and the distance between the sun and the earth.

In March of the eighth year of Qiansheng, the Ottomans invaded Mongolia, and the king Zhu Cijiong and Pingxibo Wu Sangui led troops to rescue.

In May, the Ottoman army suffered a crushing defeat in the Caucasus, and the emperor was overjoyed and promoted Pingxibo Wu Sangui to the Marquis of Pingxi.

In August, Wu Sangui, Marquis of Pingxi, died of illness on the way home, and his son Wu Yingxiong assumed the title of Earl of Pingxi.

In September, the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb led an army of 120,000 to invade the Ganges region, but was defeated by Zhu Fuju, the governor of the Western Army, and beheaded 60,000.

In the winter month, Zhu Fuju, the governor of the Western Army, died in office, and the emperor felt his merit and posthumously named him the king of Hanzhong, and his son Zhu Sibu attacked the king of Ankang County.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, the emperor transferred Wang Fuchen as the governor of the Northern Army, Qin Jiming, the Duke of Zhongguo, as the governor of the Western Army, and Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, as the governor of the Eastern Army.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth month, the Franco-Dutch War, which lasted for seven years, ended with the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen.

In the peace treaty, France gained sovereignty over some cities in the Franche-Comté, Flanders, and Ainaut regions.

After the war, nations began to recognize and revere Louis XIV's title of "Sun King".

France, with its Sun King, replaced the Netherlands as the most powerful arbiter in Europe, and William III of the Netherlands, who signed the humiliating treaty, decided to devote his life to fighting the Catholic hegemony of France.

In the first month of the ninth year of Qiansheng, the Qi Academy of Sciences experimented with the latest version of the diesel locomotive in the Qi Palace, because Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, was unable to go out at the moment because of physical problems.

In this experiment, Qi's three-wheeled diesel locomotive used ethanol gasoline as fuel and ethanol as pure fuel.

In the two-car race, the three-wheeled diesel locomotive running on ethanol gasoline won at a speed of 30 miles per hour, while the ethanol-fueled diesel locomotive had a speed of only 22 miles per hour.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, did not attack the research bachelors of the Academy of Sciences, but encouraged them with the example of trains.

In April, Ron of the Daming Armaments Institute completed a project on "electrical energy".

As early as five years ago, Ron had discovered that if there was an electric current passing through the circuit, the magnetic needle of an ordinary compass near it would shift.

He was inspired to think that if a magnet was fixed, the coil might move. Based on this assumption, he succeeded in inventing a simple device.

Inside the device, the line rotates around a magnet as long as an electric current passes through it, and this is the world's first device to use an electric current to move an object.

Although this device is very rudimentary, it is the ancestor of all electric motors in the world.

This was a major breakthrough, and although its practical use was still very limited, the Emperor Zhu Ciran still granted him the title of Earl of Kaiping.

In addition, Daming Liangjing University has also added "electromagnetism" to it.

In June, after the continuous promotion of chemical fertilizers and the fallow system, the average grain yield per mu of Daming has successfully stabilized at 360 catties.

On 17 June, Gu Yanwu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said that the annual grain exports of the national dynasty had exceeded 200 million stones, but according to the statistics of Chen Tingjing, the secretary of the household department, the annual grain exports of the Ming Dynasty did not exceed 130 million stones.

Despite this, it can also show that the Ming Dynasty is rich in food, and such wealth also shows the prosperity of the people.

According to the "Chronicles of the World's Goods" written by the crown prince Zhu Heyin, from the fourth day of the fifth month of the ninth year of Qiansheng to the seventeenth day of May, the prince Zhu and Yin personally went back and forth between the two capitals.

Although the distance between the two capitals is more than 1,700 miles, the prices of the two capitals are surprisingly equivalent.

The price of finished rice is three wen a catty, beef is 16 wen a catty, pork is 12 wen a catty, mutton is 18 wen a catty, and all kinds of vegetables range from one to three catties each.

The abundance of grain brings the cheap price of other non-staple foods, so the folk call the Qiansheng year and the Apocalypse year jointly called the "Tianqian prosperous era".

However, such days of happiness and nourishment did not last long, and it turned out that suffering often did not leave the people of this land easily.

On the morning of July 28, the ninth year of Qiansheng, a strong earthquake broke out in the capital.

At that time, the sound of the capital was like thunder, its momentum was like a surge, and the day was dark.

At the first time of the earthquake, the city gates of Shuncheng, Desheng, Haidai, and Zhangyi in Beijing collapsed, and the palaces, official houses, and residences collapsed one after another, and the sections of the city wall collapsed are even more difficult to count.

When the earthquake broke out, Emperor Zhu Ciran and Prince Zhu Heyin were having a family banquet in the Qianqing Palace, and the two were far away from the door, so they hid under the dinner table for the first time.

Fortunately, the Qianqing Palace was repaired and strengthened many times during the reign of Emperor Shizuwu, so it would not let the two die.

However, it was unlucky compared to many of the ministers of their outer court.

The hundred officials who were discussing in the Wenhua Hall had no time to withdraw from the Wenhua Palace, and the cabinet ministers Jin Xuan, Yan Yinshao and others hid under the table one after another, and Chen Tingjing, the head of the household, was stunned by the falling bricks.

Cabinet ministers Yu Chengchan and Sun Kewang were buried by the dumped tiles, officials Wang Fuzheng, Zhuang Jiansheng, Wang Guangyu and others were crushed to death by the toppled wall, and the rest of the civil and military officials died in large numbers, and the people in the inner and outer cities died even more innumerable.

In the next two days, the capital continued to repeat major earthquakes, Tongzhou, Liangxiang and other cities all fell, the ground cracked into canals, flowing out of yellow and black water, black gas covered the sky.

After the earthquake, the capital was cut off from the towns and counties, and the emperor Zhu Ciran led the prince and the officials and people to flee to Nanyuan, and the villages and towns along the way were seriously killed and injured, and the emperor Zhu Ciran ordered to save people along the way to Nanyuan.

When everyone arrived at Nanyuan, they were not allowed to rest for a moment, because the earthquake did not let them go......

Li Dingguo, Marquis of Yanshan, was ordered to brave the earthquake and ride his horse to the Yanshan camp, and mobilized the troops of Liaodong, Shanyu, Shanxi and other places to enter the north to relieve the disaster.

Pu Songling, the director of the Ministry of Rites, recorded in the "Willow Spring Codex" the tragic situation of the people who fled to Nanyuan with the emperor.

"Hundreds of thousands of people drove south, and on the south hunting road, the dead along the way were filthy."

"Stay in Nanyuan, the big earthquake continues, three days later, there is stability, there are also slight earthquakes, the monarch and the people sleep on the plain, the belly is frightened, long live send the British public Zhang Chengzhi to open the Nanyuan warehouse for disaster relief."

"On August 8th, 12th, and 13th, there was another great earthquake, and within 300 miles of the capital, a lot of people were crushed to death!"

"From the 19th to the 21st, the Marquis of Yanshan led the army to Nanyuan, and the civil and military officials and courtiers returned to Beijing with a sudden heavy rainstorm, and the fields in Shuntian became Zeze, the road was blocked, and the monarch and the people were hungry and ......."

"On the 23rd, the monarchs and the people returned to Beijing, there were countless corpses in the city, the stench was not stopped, the Marquis of Yanshan was afraid of the plague, and ordered the soldiers to burn the corpses, and the black smoke continued to ...... for ten days."

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